Saints Accounts 2024/25

[Football Special]

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25996254.southampton-fc-post-53-9million-loss-2024-25-financial-accounts/

Some interesting numbers , doesn't seem to make great reading and Alfie mentioned on podcast yesterday unclear if we breached PSR or whatever its called now. 

We've made a few sales since then and got wages off the books

Cup runs would have added some extra unexpected funds this season with trips to Anfield and Wembley,  hopefully Dragan has sorted out his business troubles. 

[IFHP]

40 minutes ago, Football Special said:

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25996254.southampton-fc-post-53-9million-loss-2024-25-financial-accounts/

Some interesting numbers , doesn't seem to make great reading and Alfie mentioned on podcast yesterday unclear if we breached PSR or whatever its called now. 

We've made a few sales since then and got wages off the books

Cup runs would have added some extra unexpected funds this season with trips to Anfield and Wembley,  hopefully Dragan has sorted out his business troubles. 

Perhaps now those fans that think staying down is a good thing will change their minds. Next season team if we do stay down will be a lot weaker as we cut costs accordingly.

I’m not sure we’ve breached PSR as we made a profit in our promotion winning season. I also don’t think even Dragan and the loons would not have sanctioned a £50 million spending spree if we were close.

I’d have thought a lot of the losses would have been recouped with the sales last summer which I think happened in July / August so wouldn’t have been included in these accounts.

 

Edited Monday at 09:20 by IFHP

[trousers]

18 minutes ago, Football Special said:

hopefully Dragan has sorted out his business troubles

It's all gone a tad quiet since he was booted out of United Group, the company he established and upon which made his fortune. What's he doing now? Surprised journos haven't been asking this question over the last 6 - 9 months (seemingly)

[Saint_clark]

From what I read in there it doesn't seem we are anywhere close to breaching PSR?

[Ex Lion Tamer]

There should surely be a rule that football club accounts have to be drawn up on a year end 31 August basis to cover the summer transfer window

Edited Monday at 09:33 by Ex Lion Tamer

[Scottie]

6 hours ago, Saint_clark said:

From what I read in there it doesn't seem we are anywhere close to breaching PSR?

It says we are about £20m over the three year limit but before infrastructure etc is taken off. Reads like touch and go.

[23rdSaint]

 

 

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

We’ll probably be fine

[Harry_SFC]

28 minutes ago, 23rdSaint said:

 

 

 

Guess it's a good job we had a few big sales last summer. 

[SaintsLoyal]

We will need to sell to buy players if we stay in the Champ. The Shea Charles situation isnt good and we can ill afford to lose money on contracts being run down. He should at least do the honourable thing and a year or two on contract with a fixed transfer price.

I think the overall debt situation needs to be tackled with no movement in five years and millions being spent on interest charges.

 

 

 

[OldNick]

I note that Dragan is charging 5.5% interest.

In reality getting promotion to the PL was not quite the land of milk and honey as the wage bill increases dramatically.

If we happen to go up I assume we wont be able to spend big to try and stay up?

[AlexLaw76]

Are the club Iiving beyond their means?

[O_B]

The total club debt must now be close to 1/4 billion.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Shea Charles will be sold this summer, I think, regardless of promotion or not. I’d take £20M for him

[Baird of the land]

37 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Shea Charles will be sold this summer, I think, regardless of promotion or not. I’d take £20M for him

I'd be very annoyed if we sold Charles. If we are going to sell one, better to sell Jander.

[S-Clarke]

36 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

I'd be very annoyed if we sold Charles. If we are going to sell one, better to sell Jander.

The contract will stipulate that I think, we'll have to sell him this summer to avoid losing an asset for £0 - unless he signs a new deal, which I'm honest is unlikely unless promotion happens.

[OldNick]

Surely Charles is worth more than 20m, we got 35m for Dibling FFS 

[Baird of the land]

32 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

The contract will stipulate that I think, we'll have to sell him this summer to avoid losing an asset for £0 - unless he signs a new deal, which I'm honest is unlikely unless promotion happens.

They have a clause enabling them to extend him for a year, so that shouldn't be an immediate issue.

Southampton clause means they have no worries about Charles contract | Daily Echo

[Willo of Whiteley]

9 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Surely Charles is worth more than 20m, we got 35m for Dibling FFS 

Love how we’ve taken Everton to the cleaners on this deal 

[BERMUDASAINT]

 

Is the Championship heading for financial 'catastrophe'?


https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ce35l43w83lo

 

[OldNick]

Players are paid too much, period

[Tommy Mulgrew]

For those who want to read it, here is the accounts document (blimey, the link is almost as big as the accounts!):

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live.ch.gov.uk/docs/kGTRKOV5iyHDNFURXZLZt0OcdKswsgRZB7wJqKqy-WU/application-pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAWRGBDBV3DYERIOPT%2F20260408%2Feu-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260408T212948Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEDkaCWV1LXdlc3QtMiJGMEQCIDjkanAD4KNdAYvbjZMFyjgMzlKjgqfzaktE25I5A7HPAiAe17j%2F7SefPFT5bBtkacPexJVndnVNiNGhQUzqTsUofCqBBAgCEAUaDDQ0OTIyOTAzMjgyMiIMlT4J%2Bep7Uqacgtu0Kt4DcfAJdhCBbBHqG7kf2UY%2F8ut2EJFNP84gK1OfU8T3%2BMpu8iVAoijZhgqn%2B8FkWcl3ZfgqjgoGOW5%2Bb0vmIHQ2NRiT6KYWS3x5oCNhmfQb8VEUBdQkiAF9va5hEx%2BsrC5T9mYCCesnfF57WrnQl%2B9bJIwzMAPx7y4Owqaln2IrUj9njiK2EUJ%2Ft3x9f152PcsyST6u9LqQVKldxx0utn8DKGX37B78gjNJzosSy6d8lIYQXiPnr1pw2YZJXGML69SIcnbhdNXecZWCrBQBgybFB95wmk87BNclNIwhw%2BhAcOaSQD%2BLuRdA4SgYpkUjHB6jGGOKGJmA%2B4Gv63Aihxzxyu7XXI32b7CBFuWpUmcvXlY8%2BhzTo6yYhAXY6LF%2BLgA7FFuC7D5gaUyECoEdDpM7DnbcFTeZnV%2FKwgKZ5pJPC%2FFz%2B3Eb1Ju3gZctG7hRcBi3uHlLbFWn7TEa5MWlirVC66uZSL%2BZZ5tJZRFTqFHZubN3lGRGz6fa9Gcgph1bk2pG53hGeo3NFUj93oQfSB%2BAf5UlD4YOLqHlAEHz6SfbqYqoFAdIbwSO4wA4720Wo%2FEpHSYNjWyDRwtPB0htWQPpG6vo9eE4nHvLZB6HJd8qQ97dSbMwYkFUIeGp5ayfrTC6h9rOBjqmAaZ4Hit4Z%2F50ABqOfl5y1Xx6nReDD11vLDJx3RsDQE0atSJLRv0pZcuFwWNYYP3MGEB6KWjMiSiZ2%2F9nhINqteoGoIqeW33U0YY0tavuVuteJRytQ5dBQLFOOdm0sfmJN2kiUCLoJnOBV8M9Dl40v%2F48eCwWeTk1f7U8vpN46Pvm8NvdAWHtld%2Fs7wIxpuiRYYH0P82h%2B9v%2BE89k6l5aRMCc9kcYEns%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D"companies_house_document.pdf"&X-Amz-Signature=8c1a121f2d3fcd32fd1cc821d8d6a849cdc0326341801bf6a54d9185395134e3

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

On 07/04/2026 at 14:09, OldNick said:

Players are paid too much, period

They are and £10million on agent fees!

[Doctoroncall]

On 07/04/2026 at 14:09, OldNick said:

59 minutes ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

They are and £10million on agent fees!

 

On 07/04/2026 at 14:09, OldNick said:

Players are paid too much, period

There was a business finance pod a couple of days ago stating that with most of the Championship clubs losing between 10-20 million a season. Ex AV chairman commenting on Eisner’s statement around wages but also the TV rights being so poor and a huge step down from the Premier League. The solidarity payment being peanuts and clubs chasing the dream of promotion. 
 

One way it can change is to market the Championship together with the Premier League rather than a competing league and player wages being more aligned to performance and release clauses. 

[Crab Lungs]

On 07/04/2026 at 13:16, BERMUDASAINT said:

 

Is the Championship heading for financial 'catastrophe'?


https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ce35l43w83lo

It’ll eventually be 3 clubs with parachute payments dominating and 21 others competing to sign Romain Gasmi level players on a free.

[Chez]

On 07/04/2026 at 10:26, AlexLaw76 said:

Are the club Iiving beyond their means?

we certainly spend more than we bring in, if you exclude player sales. Pretty much every club does. No one lives within their means really. They all run at a loss and survive on loans, rich owner handouts and player sales. 

I think it goes without saying that player sales are essential to our survival. Won't stop all the hilarious sarcastic posts related to signing players for their resell value. 

[Chez]

On 08/04/2026 at 22:38, Tommy Mulgrew said:

For those who want to read it, here is the accounts document (blimey, the link is almost as big as the accounts!):

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live.ch.gov.uk/docs/kGTRKOV5iyHDNFURXZLZt0OcdKswsgRZB7wJqKqy-WU/application-pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAWRGBDBV3DYERIOPT%2F20260408%2Feu-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260408T212948Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEDkaCWV1LXdlc3QtMiJGMEQCIDjkanAD4KNdAYvbjZMFyjgMzlKjgqfzaktE25I5A7HPAiAe17j%2F7SefPFT5bBtkacPexJVndnVNiNGhQUzqTsUofCqBBAgCEAUaDDQ0OTIyOTAzMjgyMiIMlT4J%2Bep7Uqacgtu0Kt4DcfAJdhCBbBHqG7kf2UY%2F8ut2EJFNP84gK1OfU8T3%2BMpu8iVAoijZhgqn%2B8FkWcl3ZfgqjgoGOW5%2Bb0vmIHQ2NRiT6KYWS3x5oCNhmfQb8VEUBdQkiAF9va5hEx%2BsrC5T9mYCCesnfF57WrnQl%2B9bJIwzMAPx7y4Owqaln2IrUj9njiK2EUJ%2Ft3x9f152PcsyST6u9LqQVKldxx0utn8DKGX37B78gjNJzosSy6d8lIYQXiPnr1pw2YZJXGML69SIcnbhdNXecZWCrBQBgybFB95wmk87BNclNIwhw%2BhAcOaSQD%2BLuRdA4SgYpkUjHB6jGGOKGJmA%2B4Gv63Aihxzxyu7XXI32b7CBFuWpUmcvXlY8%2BhzTo6yYhAXY6LF%2BLgA7FFuC7D5gaUyECoEdDpM7DnbcFTeZnV%2FKwgKZ5pJPC%2FFz%2B3Eb1Ju3gZctG7hRcBi3uHlLbFWn7TEa5MWlirVC66uZSL%2BZZ5tJZRFTqFHZubN3lGRGz6fa9Gcgph1bk2pG53hGeo3NFUj93oQfSB%2BAf5UlD4YOLqHlAEHz6SfbqYqoFAdIbwSO4wA4720Wo%2FEpHSYNjWyDRwtPB0htWQPpG6vo9eE4nHvLZB6HJd8qQ97dSbMwYkFUIeGp5ayfrTC6h9rOBjqmAaZ4Hit4Z%2F50ABqOfl5y1Xx6nReDD11vLDJx3RsDQE0atSJLRv0pZcuFwWNYYP3MGEB6KWjMiSiZ2%2F9nhINqteoGoIqeW33U0YY0tavuVuteJRytQ5dBQLFOOdm0sfmJN2kiUCLoJnOBV8M9Dl40v%2F48eCwWeTk1f7U8vpN46Pvm8NvdAWHtld%2Fs7wIxpuiRYYH0P82h%2B9v%2BE89k6l5aRMCc9kcYEns%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=inline%3Bfilename%3D"companies_house_document.pdf"&X-Amz-Signature=8c1a121f2d3fcd32fd1cc821d8d6a849cdc0326341801bf6a54d9185395134e3

does seem to work. Can you try again. They haven't posted them on the Saints website yet and I'd like to take a look.

[Chez]

On 07/04/2026 at 12:58, OldNick said:

Surely Charles is worth more than 20m, we got 35m for Dibling FFS 

Not too many championship players sold for that amount, but he probably will be when he shines in the PL next season.

[Chez]

4 minutes ago, Chez said:

does seem to work. Can you try again. They haven't posted them on the Saints website yet and I'd like to take a look.

duplicate

Edited 1 hour ago by Chez

[Tommy Mulgrew]

21 minutes ago, Chez said:

does seem to work. Can you try again. They haven't posted them on the Saints website yet and I'd like to take a look.

 

Try this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyegx3dg3no

if it does not work go to the Saints’ page on the bbc website and scroll down to April 8th and you will find a link to an article on the accounts.  At the bottom of that is a link to a gov website that contains links to the accounts and other sfc company info.

Edited 57 minutes ago by Tommy Mulgrew
Clarity

[Chez]

3 minutes ago, Tommy Mulgrew said:

 

Try this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyegx3dg3no

if it does not work go to the Saints’ page on the bbc website and scroll down to April 8th and you will find the link. 

Cheers. I found them. Not sure where the Echo get the £53.9m loss from. They club lost £44.7m.